top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-09-28

ButtFish – Transmit Morse Code of chess moves to your butt

https://github.com/RonSijm/ButtFish

4 years ago

Ken Thompson really did launch his "trusting trust" trojan attack in real life

https://niconiconi.neocities.org/posts/ken-thompson-really-did-launch-his-trusting-trust-trojan-attack-in-real-life/

4 years ago

I spent $3k on a Samsung Smart TV and all I got were ads and unwanted content

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/i-spent-3000-on-a-samsung-smart-tv-and-all-i-got-were-ads-and-unwanted-content/

4 years ago

We reduced our server costs by moving away from AWS

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/how-we-reduced-our-annual-server-costs-by-80-from-1m-to-200k-by-moving-away-from-aws-2b98cbd21b46?gi=bb7f54e84163

4 years ago

DALL·E Now Available Without Waitlist

https://openai.com/blog/dall-e-now-available-without-waitlist/

4 years ago

Google Broke Image Search for Creative Commons

https://cogdogblog.com/2022/09/google-broke-cc-image-search/

4 years ago

High-performance image generation using Stable Diffusion in KerasCV

https://keras.io/guides/keras_cv/generate_images_with_stable_diffusion/

4 years ago

D3wasm 0.4 – Doom 3 in WASM

https://wasm.continuation-labs.com/d3demo/

4 years ago

Open Source PC That Fits in Your Pocket

https://spectrum.ieee.org/meet-an-open-source-pc-that-can-fit-in-your-pocket

4 years ago

New (LTE) Rotary Cell Phone [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV1C-41tq64

4 years ago

Google postpones MV2 shutoff in Chrome stable to June 2023

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/more-mv2-transition/

4 years ago

When the push button was new, people were freaked

https://daily.jstor.org/when-the-push-button-was-new-people-were-freaked/

4 years ago

Matrix: Third Room Tech Preview [video]

https://matrix.org/blog/2022/09/27/announcing-third-room-tech-preview-1/

4 years ago

Learn TLA+

https://learntla.com/

4 years ago

KeePassXC: Beware of unofficial Microsoft Store listing

https://twitter.com/KeePassXC/status/1575081535442628609

4 years ago

Newsom just signed California pay transparency bill

https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/newsom-pay-transparency

4 years ago

Posits, a New Kind of Number, Improves the Math of AI

https://spectrum.ieee.org/floating-point-numbers-posits-processor

4 years ago

Arduino IDE 2.0

https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/09/14/its-here-please-welcome-arduino-ide-2-0/

4 years ago

Why are sex workers forced to wear a financial scarlet letter?

https://thewalrus.ca/why-are-sex-workers-forced-to-wear-a-financial-scarlet-letter/

4 years ago

I've said it all before but here we go again

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/09/ive-said-it-all-before-but-here-we-go.html

4 years ago

AWS us-west-2 issues

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33010341

4 years ago

Apple Has Reportedly Rejected TSMC's Chip Price Hike of 6%

https://wccftech.com/apple-rejects-tsmc-chip-price-hike/

4 years ago

Taken under fascism, Spain’s ‘stolen babies’ are learning the truth

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/27/magazine/spain-stolen-babies.html

4 years ago

Snakeware – Linux distro with Python userspace inspired by Commodore 64

https://github.com/joshiemoore/snakeware

4 years ago

Antibiotic-loaded microalgae treat bacterial pneumonia in mice

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-022-01360-9

4 years ago

Amazon’s Kindle Scribe is an E Ink tablet for reading and writing

https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/28/23375663/amazon-kindle-scribe-e-ink-tablet-stylus-event-price

4 years ago

The ‘Epic of Gilgamesh’ is not the oldest surviving work of literature

https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/09/22/no-the-epic-of-gilgamesh-is-not-the-oldest-surviving-work-of-literature/

4 years ago

The most dangerous road for cyclists in America

https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a41119529/the-most-dangerous-road-for-cyclists-in-america/

4 years ago

Amazon deleted my Final Space digital purchases of season 1 and 2

https://twitter.com/PixelatedWah/status/1574924613456343041

4 years ago

Ask HN: Seriously, steelman this please. 7,400 employees at Docusign?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33012137

4 years ago

Turnstile: privacy-preserving alternative to CAPTCHA by Cloudflare

https://blog.cloudflare.com/turnstile-private-captcha-alternative/

4 years ago

Security in Plan 9 (2002)

https://9p.io/sys/doc/auth.html

4 years ago

Show HN: Depot – fast, remote Docker container builds

https://depot.dev

4 years ago

Nord Stream: Tie-ins and hyperbaric welding

https://www.wermac.org/nordstream/nordstream_part9.html

4 years ago

UK Has ‘No Chance in Hell’ of Making Its Own Tech Champs: ARM Founder

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-28/arm-founder-sees-no-chance-in-hell-uk-getting-tech-sovereignty

4 years ago

Show HN: Refurb – A tool for refurbishing and modernizing Python codebases

https://github.com/dosisod/refurb

4 years ago

Australia gov wants telco Optus to pay for new passports for data breach victims

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/475692/australian-govt-wants-telco-optus-to-pay-for-new-passports-for-data-breach-victims

4 years ago

DocuSign to cut workforce by 9% as part of restructuring plan

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/28/docusign-to-cut-workforce-by-9percent-as-part-of-restructuring-plan.html

4 years ago

How Underground Groups Use Stolen Identities and Deepfakes

https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/22/i/how-underground-groups-use-stolen-identities-and-deepfakes.html

4 years ago

Gaming CS Interviews

https://transitivebullsh.it/gaming-cs-interviews

4 years ago

How New Are Yann LeCun's “New” Ideas?

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/how-new-are-yann-lecuns-new-ideas

4 years ago

Ask HN: What's Happening at Cloudflare?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33010744

4 years ago

Tell HN: Toptal's HTML minification API occasionally injects tracking JavaScript

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33013873

4 years ago

US Government building AI tech to unmask anonymous writers

https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/28/iarpa_ai_anonymous_text_author_writers/

4 years ago

I argue that studying the history of philosophy is philosophically unhelpful

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0020174X.2022.2124542

4 years ago

Ask HN: How to be less opinionated?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33006368

4 years ago

Choose the smallest number not chosen yet

https://www.amolas.dev/blog/choose-the-smallest-number/

4 years ago

Gmail sends IRS and FBI emails to spam

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33014491

4 years ago

U.S. mortgage interest rates jump to 6.52%, highest since mid-2008

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-mortgage-interest-rates-jump-652-highest-since-mid-2008-2022-09-28/

4 years ago

Scientists find wreckage of ship that tried to warn Titanic of iceberg

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/titanic-warning-ss-mesaba-irish-sea-intl-scli-scn/index.html

4 years ago

Penpot Raises $8M Series A

https://community.penpot.app/t/penpot-our-time-has-come/1563

4 years ago

Collecting Vernacular Photography

https://thomashawk.com/2022/09/collecting-vernacular-photography.html

4 years ago

Cloudflare GA Week Recap

https://softwarestackinvesting.com/cloudflare-ga-week-recap/

4 years ago

62 People own the same as half the world, reveals Oxfam Davos report (2016)

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/62-people-own-same-half-world-reveals-oxfam-davos-report

4 years ago

California can't save every burned town

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-27/california-climate-change-stop-rebuilding-rural-towns-wildfire-greenville

4 years ago

Bargain hunter scores 700-year-old document

https://apnews.com/article/oddities-entertainment-music-religion-3162da2fed026abbdf5820e72f11e523

4 years ago

Subsection – A tool for creating support docs for SaaS

https://subsection.io

4 years ago

Tauri and Svelte for faster, lighter desktop apps

https://ghostdev.xyz/posts/build-a-cross-platform-app-with-tauri/

4 years ago

E2EE vulnerabilities in matrix-js-sdk, matrix-ios-sdk and matrix-android-sdk2

https://matrix.org/blog/2022/09/28/upgrade-now-to-address-encryption-vulns-in-matrix-sdks-and-clients/

4 years ago

Minimize Heap Allocations in Node.js

https://blog.appsignal.com/2022/09/28/minimize-heap-allocations-in-nodejs.html

4 years ago

S.F. sued over homeless camp sweeps: city charged with criminalizing unsheltered

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-sued-over-homeless-camp-sweeps-as-advocates-17471443.php

4 years ago